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Sandvik

Sandvik Group faces a challenge in unifying their data. Using the Databricks Data + AI Platform, Sandvik has made strides in breaking down data silos, enhancing productivity and accelerating AI-driven innovation.

As a high-tech engineering company with clients in manufacturing, mining and infrastructure, and 41,000 employees spread across 170 countries, Sandvik knows all about those benefits and challenges

Reported impact

Business outcome

Reported outcomes include As a high-tech engineering company with clients in manufacturing, mining and infrastructure, and 41,000 employees spread across 170 countries, Sandvik knows all about those benefits and challenges.

Solution

Sandvik Group faces a challenge in unifying their data. With an ambition to drive AI innovation, Sandvik sought to improve operational efficiency and provide better solutions for their customers in complex sectors like mining and manufacturing. Using the Databricks Data + AI Platform, Sandvik has made strides in breaking down data silos, enhancing productivity and accelerating AI-driven innovation. While scale certainly has its benefits, it also comes with its own set of challenges. As a high-tech engineering company with clients in manufacturing, mining and infrastructure, and 41,000 employees spread across 170 countries, Sandvik knows all about those benefits and challenges. Being a manufacturer with thousands of products being delivered to different customers all over the world, Sandvik has leaned heavily into machine learning to know what product they are going to make, where they are going to make it and to what country the product will be exported.

Data flow

Source system and event data lands in Databricks, is transformed in Delta Lake tables under Unity Catalog governance, with pipelines coordinated through Databricks orchestration and transformation services.

Solution architecture

6 components · 4 layers
  1. Compute
    • Databricks Data + AI Platform Provides the shared lakehouse environment for ingestion, engineering, analytics, and AI workloads.
    • Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines Runs declarative batch and streaming transformations with less custom pipeline code.
  2. Storage
    • Delta Lake Stores curated lakehouse tables used for reliable downstream analytics and AI workloads.
  3. Orchestration
    • Lakeflow Jobs Schedules and orchestrates recurring data pipelines and production jobs.
    • Lakeflow Coordinates ingestion and transformation workflows across the lakehouse.
  4. Governance
    • Unity Catalog Applies centralized governance, lineage, and access controls across shared data assets.

Architecture clues

  • Runs on Azure.
  • Uses Spark Declarative Pipelines for declarative batch or streaming ETL.
  • Uses Unity Catalog for centralized governance and access control.

Evidence from the source

As a high-tech engineering company with clients in manufacturing, mining and infrastructure, and 41,000 employees spread across 170 countries, Sandvik knows all about those benefits and challenges
Sandvik Group faces a challenge in unifying their data.
Using the Databricks Data + AI Platform, Sandvik has made strides in breaking down data silos, enhancing productivity and accelerating AI-driven innovation.
While scale certainly has its benefits, it also comes with its own set of challenges.
With an ambition to drive AI innovation, Sandvik sought to improve operational efficiency and provide better solutions for their customers in complex sectors like mining and manufacturing.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 77/100 reference value · 89% confidence · 1 source

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value77/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth20/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity12/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact15/25
    1 metric describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence89%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Databricks

    Sandvik customer story

    First-party
    https://www.databricks.com/customers/sandvik
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Mar 7, 2025
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes
    • Publication date

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Mar 7, 2025 · Databricks · First-party
    Open date source
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